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Bearing the King's Will, I Look into the Wrongful Prison Cases of the Subordinate Counties奉宣旨。省屬郡冤獄。
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 9 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
紫殿溫言急活人。黃沙喜氣散爲春。此行盡放籠中鳥。遣作東西自在身。
The warm words of the purple hall hasten to give men life, and over the yellow sand the glad air scatters and becomes spring. On this journey I set loose every bird within the cage, and let them be bodies at liberty, to east and west.